“I don’t know if he’s had that conversation or not,” a White House spokesman said of restarting family separations.
Following Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation, President Donald Trump has not ruled out restarting family separations at the southern border—a policy that Nielsen vigorously defended.
“I’ve not spoken with the president directly about that; I have not heard that,” Gidley said. “I don’t know if he’s had that conversation or not.”Nielsen, last year at a White House briefing, said that the Trump administration was simply continuing a policy from “previous administrations” that required separating children from their families if they were “in danger.”
“I am eternally grateful and proud of what you do each and everyday to protect our homeland- each of you are why I came back to serve my country,” she tweeted, addressing Department of Homeland Security employees. “Our missions as a Department are vast and have never been more vital. You are in the arena- keep up the good fight.”
From left: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and President Trump at a law enforcement on sanctuary cities roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on March 20, 2018. Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images
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